Whenever it rains you will think of her.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's a book about family, it's a book about being 7 in a world of people who are bigger than you, and more dangerous, and stepping into territory that you don't entirely understand.

Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not relate to music in the same way that they do to pictures. It's all different parts of our head, different parts of our minds processing this.

Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad. Death: Uh-uh. It's always like this. You probably just don't get out enough.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

I think hell is something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go.